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It really perplexes me that there isn't any Internet Outrage about fetishisation of young Japanese girls; cartoons or otherwise.

As far as I can see it's the one area of DEI that gets a free pass.

It's really creepy.

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You occasionally see some discourse, but generally that's fairly far down the list of priorities of Asian or Asian-American women themselves. There was more discourse in the Anglosphere about the anti-Asian mass shootings. Tends to get subsumed into generic pro/anti porn discourse. I suspect the discourse from Japanese women themselves is conducted in Japanese and therefore invisible to us.

I don't think in a professional DEI environment you'd get a pass for having a fetishy anime desktop background.

what does anime waitfus have to do with DEI?

There's no DEI initiative to help the disadvantaged weeaboos

They’ll be adding ‘minor attracted persons’ to the kiriarchy rubric any day now…

I’ve heard generative porns don’t seem to be as popular in Japanese male/boys market(for-women categories). Nor cats, strangely, considering the Internet is supposed to be obsessed with cute cats doing cute things.

The internet was invented for cats and pictures of them. I don't understand why everyone doesn't know this.

My point is, if same applied for AI, there should be cargo ships worth of generated cats - but no, all generative image AI is used for is to generate young (anime) Japanese girls, and absolutely nothing else. Which is okay for me, but curious.

Not all anime girls are Japanese. Almost all the generated ones don't even have a nation of origin.

Tells you something about the seriousness about the whole DEI thing.

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